Quotes About Governesses

#1. Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

Daniel Nayeri

#2. Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said.
She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect."
"Are all governesses so sarcastic?

Julia Quinn

#3. It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories.

Jack D. Zipes

#4. Remember Who it is that has placed you in your present position; perhaps you have no home, perhaps you have experienced a reverse of fortune; no matter what! It is God who has willed it so, therefore look to Him for guidance and protection. - HINTS TO GOVERNESSES, BY ONE OF THEMSELVES, 1856

Julie Klassen

#5. My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Frederik, Crown Prince Of Denmark

#6. Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want,' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

Christianna Brand

#8. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi - were they not, mama? Blanche Ingram

Charlotte Bronte

#10. Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

Libba Bray

#11. Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom?

Mary Balogh

#12. Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. I am not in the habit of deflowering governesses." "I am not in the habit of being deflowered by pirates. Shall we consider it a draw?"

-Luc & Arabella

Katharine Ashe

#14. Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

Diana Wynne Jones

#15. The ethical system that will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity - beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds - and to check the procreation of base and servile type.

H.G.Wells

#16. Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Romola Garai

#17. There's always time for babbling.

Eoin Colfer

#18. This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

Ryan White

#19. Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.

Sathya Sai Baba

#20. I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

Neal Schon